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  • Open Access
8 Citations
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The Association between Academic Schedule and Physical Activity Behaviors in University Students

  • Yingyi Wu,
  • Pascal W. M. Van Gerven,
  • Renate H. M. de Groot,
  • Bert O. Eijnde,
  • Jan Seghers,
  • Bjorn Winkens and
  • Hans H. C. M. Savelberg

Background: University students sit too much, which is detrimental to their physical and mental health. Academic schedules, including scheduled education time and self-study time, may influence their physical activity behaviors. Objectives: To invest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
12,840 Views
12 Pages

Screen Time, Physical Activity and Self-Esteem in Children: The Ulm Birth Cohort Study

  • Stefanie Braig,
  • Jon Genuneit,
  • Viola Walter,
  • Stephanie Brandt,
  • Martin Wabitsch,
  • Lutz Goldbeck,
  • Hermann Brenner and
  • Dietrich Rothenbacher

Screen time is a central activity of children’s daily life and jeopardizes mental health. However, results appear inconclusive and are often based on small cross-sectional studies. We aimed to investigate the temporal sequence of the associatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,064 Views
21 Pages

The Impact of Employment Self-Sufficiency Measures on Commuting Time: Case Study of Perth, Australia

  • Keone Kelobonye,
  • Feng Mao,
  • Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia,
  • Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan and
  • Gary McCarney

11 March 2019

The level of commuting in cities is an important indicator of the efficiency of urban spatial structure. Recent research has come out in support of land use policies that promote balancing the number of employment opportunities and residents in local...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,249 Views
22 Pages

Enhancing Self-Explanation Learning through a Real-Time Feedback System: An Empirical Evaluation Study

  • Ryosuke Nakamoto,
  • Brendan Flanagan,
  • Yiling Dai,
  • Taisei Yamauchi,
  • Kyosuke Takami and
  • Hiroaki Ogata

2 November 2023

This research introduces the self-explanation-based automated feedback (SEAF) system, aimed at alleviating the teaching burden through real-time, automated feedback while aligning with SDG 4’s sustainability goals for quality education. The sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,595 Views
10 Pages

4 July 2024

How to allocate study time is an important decision-making problem learners face. Research on this problem can help improve the learning performance of learners and provide guidance for teaching activities. This research aimed to explore the potentia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,485 Views
18 Pages

Association of High Levels of Bullying and Cyberbullying with Study Time Management and Effort Self-Regulation in Adolescent Boys and Girls

  • Jose Luis Solas-Martínez,
  • Alba Rusillo-Magdaleno,
  • Ramón Garrote-Jurado and
  • Alberto Ruiz-Ariza

30 April 2025

This study examined the association between bullying and cyberbullying (both victims and perpetrators) and resource management strategies for learning in students aged 10 to 16. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 1330 Spanish students (48.95%...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,510 Views
9 Pages

Body Fat Mediates Association between Active Living and Health among Adolescents

  • Stanislava Stranavska,
  • Daniela Husarova,
  • Jiri Michal,
  • Karol Gorner and
  • Jaroslava Kopcakova

The aim of this study was to explore the association of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and organized leisure-time activities with self-rated health among adolescents and whether these associations are mediated by body fat percentage. We used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,310 Views
11 Pages

13 November 2023

(1) Background: Many studies have revealed a relationship between serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D and physical activity. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between self-reported sitting time and serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D levels in middle-ag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,556 Views
9 Pages

1 October 2022

Leisure-time moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) is an essential indicator of overall health. Given the physical nature of police work, it is critical to understand variables that predict officers’ engagement in MVPA. Self-efficacy fo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,808 Views
10 Pages

The beneficial health effects of physical activity, in particular moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), are well documented, but there is an ongoing scientific debate whether the domain matters, i.e., whether leisure time physical activity i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,535 Views
12 Pages

Objectively-Measured Sedentary Time and Self-Reported Prescription Medication Use Among Adults: A Pilot Study

  • Ciarra A. Boyne,
  • Tammie M. Johnson,
  • Lindsay P. Toth,
  • Michael R. Richardson and
  • James R. Churilla

10 December 2024

While previous research has linked physical activity (PA) with lower prescription medication consumption, limited evidence has investigated sedentary time (ST) as a major contributor to medication use, despite ST’s known association with chroni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,904 Views
12 Pages

(1) Background: China has the highest number of rural-to-urban floating women in the world, and the majority of them are of childbearing age. However, few studies have focused on maternal self-efficacy (MSE) for these women. This research aims to exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,456 Views
22 Pages

Study of Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope Feed Cabin Time-Series Prediction Studies Based on Long Short-Term Memory–Self-Attention

  • Shuai Peng,
  • Minghui Li,
  • Benning Song,
  • Dongjun Yu,
  • Yabo Luo,
  • Qingliang Yang,
  • Yu Feng,
  • Kaibin Yu and
  • Jiaxue Li

25 October 2024

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), as the world’s most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, necessitates highly accurate positioning of its feed cabin to utilize its full observational potential. Traditional positioni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,795 Views
11 Pages

This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the associations among self-reported sitting time (ST), transtheoretical model (TTM) based on exercise behavior change, and glycemic and weight control in Japanese adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Forty-t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
982 Views
22 Pages

Persona, Break Glass, Name Plan, Jam (PBNJ): A New AI Workflow for Planning and Problem Solving

  • Laurie Faith,
  • Tiffanie Zaugg,
  • Nicole Stolys,
  • Madeline Szabo,
  • Fatemeh Haghi,
  • Charles Badlis and
  • Simon Lefever Olmedo

28 November 2025

This self-study presents Persona, Break Glass, Name Plan, Jam (PBNJ), a human-centered workflow for using generative AI to support differentiated lesson planning and problem solving. Although differentiated instruction (DI) is widely endorsed, early-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,845 Views
12 Pages

Academic success in medical education is shaped by a complex interaction of biological predispositions, lifestyle choices, and mental health status. Understanding these factors is essential for student-centered educational reform and well-being suppo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,899 Views
15 Pages

Countering Discourses of Derision: Moving towards Action in Teacher Education in the USA and Sweden

  • Katarina Blennow,
  • Martin Malmström and
  • Elizabeth Petroelje Stolle

This article is about how negative discourses of teacher education position teacher educators and how they might influence or inspire action. We use self-study methods to investigate the political dimension of teacher education in two national contex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,940 Views
25 Pages

A Self-Forming Hydrogel from a Bactericidal Copolymer: Synthesis, Characterization, Biological Evaluations and Perspective Applications

  • Silvana Alfei,
  • Alessia Zorzoli,
  • Danilo Marimpietri,
  • Guendalina Zuccari,
  • Eleonora Russo,
  • Debora Caviglia and
  • Anna Maria Schito

1 December 2022

Objects touched by patients and healthcare workers in hospitals may harbor pathogens, including multi-drug resistant (MDR) staphylococci, enterococci (VRE), Escherichia coli, Acinetobacter, and Pseudomonas species. Medical devices contaminated by the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,115 Views
18 Pages

20 October 2020

Recently, a number of data analysists have suffered from an insufficiency of historical observations in many real situations. To address the insufficiency of historical observations, self-starting forecasting process can be used. A self-starting fore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,952 Views
17 Pages

20 November 2020

The main goal of public intervention is to amend market imperfections. However, public agencies may also have other goals in supporting entrepreneurship and promotion of self-employment. The aim of the paper is to analyze the impact of the funding gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,404 Views
14 Pages

26 February 2024

The face-to-face education system around the world unexpectedly collapsed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The priority education process became remote education and activities related to self-study and self-education. This paper investiga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,988 Views
13 Pages

Social Jet-Lag in Tertiary Students Following a Modern Curriculum with Few Time-Tabled Contact Hours: A Pilot Study

  • Cathalijn H. C. Leenaars,
  • Mathijs F. G. Lucassen,
  • Nedim Borger,
  • Ellen Houben and
  • Andries Kalsbeek

Social jet-lag (SJL) impairs academic performance, specifically for late chronotypes faced with early start times. Most modern tertiary educational systems have fewer time-tabled contact hours and consequently fewer early starts, which may limit SJL....

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,116 Views
11 Pages

28 March 2021

Many reports in dental education showed that student learning improved with the flipped classroom method. However, there are few reports that describe how different subsets of students may benefit from the flipped classroom. In this study, we investi...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
576 Views
9 Pages

10 October 2025

The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of maternal involvement in children’s home-based learning activities during the COVID-19 lockdown on mothers’ parenting stress, the quality of maternal care perceived by offspring, and the le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,498 Views
27 Pages

Presently, Java is a fundamental object-oriented programming language that can be mastered by any student in information technology or computer science. To assist both teachers and students, we developed the Java Programming Learning Assistant System...

  • Discussion
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,163 Views
20 Pages

9 April 2015

This paper draws on an initiative where we experienced being new, radical, and, from some viewpoints, dangerously progressive at Unitec—a Polytechnic/Institute of Technology in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The initiative was driven by a need to improve stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
779 Views
32 Pages

1 April 2025

The evaluation and selection of green suppliers is an important way for enterprises to maintain sustainable development and help them reduce costs and increase efficiency. This paper proposes a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model in an interv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,745 Views
22 Pages

Self-Learning Geometric Transformations: A Framework for the “Before and After” Style of Exercises

  • José Saúl González-Campos,
  • Joan Arnedo-Moreno and
  • Jordi Sánchez-Navarro

28 May 2022

After the long period of mandatory distance learning, either synchronous or asynchronous, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the existence of learning tools to support students in similar scenarios is welcomed in many curriculum subjects. Geometric tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,301 Views
14 Pages

Little attention has been paid to knee muscle strength after ACL rupture and its effect on prognostic outcomes and treatment decisions. We studied hamstrings (H) and quadriceps (Q) strength correlation with a patient-reported outcome measures score (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,244 Views
12 Pages

4 May 2023

In a flipped classroom, learners study at home and do the ‘homework’ in class. This approach respects the limitations of memory and allows more interaction between learners. The overall vision is self-paced activities for learners with de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,615 Views
16 Pages

Hearing Therapy Improves Tinnitus-Related Distress in Mildly Distressed Patients with Chronic Tinnitus and Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss: A Randomized-Controlled Cross-Over Design

  • Benjamin Boecking,
  • Leonie Rausch,
  • Stamatina Psatha,
  • Amarjargal Nyamaa,
  • Juliane Dettling-Papargyris,
  • Christine Funk,
  • Petra Brueggemann,
  • Matthias Rose and
  • Birgit Mazurek

22 March 2022

Background: The psychological effects of hearing aids and auditory training are underinvestigated. Objective: To assess the short- and long-term effects of an industry-developed auditory training on tinnitus-related distress, perceived stress, and ps...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,554 Views
14 Pages

27 April 2023

Background: Social media is a ubiquitous phenomenon that serves as a tool for communication, collaboration, and creativity. In the long term, it has an indispensable place in the field of education. The research paper discusses the use of certain soc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,451 Views
14 Pages

Teaching in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Study on Teachers’ Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy in an Italian Sample

  • Stefania Cataudella,
  • Stefano Mariano Carta,
  • Maria Lidia Mascia,
  • Carmelo Masala,
  • Donatella Rita Petretto,
  • Mirian Agus and
  • Maria Pietronilla Penna

The aim of this research was to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on teachers, particularly on their self-esteem and self-efficacy, their difficulty in the transition to distance learning, the difficulty of students, and specially of st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,355 Views
12 Pages

Assessment of the Impact of Distance Education on Students’ IQ

  • Vaidas Gaidelys,
  • Gintautas Cibulskas,
  • Rūta Čiutienė,
  • Skaidrius Miliauskas and
  • Evelina Gaideliene

30 March 2023

This study analyzed the widespread distance teaching/learning impact in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and assessed distance teaching/learning’s effects on students’ intelligence. The distance teaching/learning impact results were e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,775 Views
20 Pages

19 December 2024

Background/Objectives: The study investigated the dynamic interrelations of both positive and negative self-esteem with depression among immigrant adolescents. Methods: Longitudinal data from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS) were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,067 Views
10 Pages

Self-Exclusion among Online Poker Gamblers: Effects on Expenditure in Time and Money as Compared to Matched Controls

  • Amandine Luquiens,
  • Aline Dugravot,
  • Henri Panjo,
  • Amine Benyamina,
  • Stéphane Gaïffas and
  • Emmanuel Bacry

Background: No comparative data is available to report on the effect of online self-exclusion. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of self-exclusion in online poker gambling as compared to matched controls, after the end of the self-exclus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,098 Views
26 Pages

The Integration of ICT in the Sustainable Educational Processes of Children’s Emotional Self-Regulation: A Study Contextualised in Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Times

  • Freddy Marín-González,
  • Sandra Pachón Lozano,
  • Michelle Sánchez Baez,
  • Alexa Senior-Naveda,
  • Luis Guanipa-Ramirez and
  • Melani Pinto-Pereira

19 November 2024

This article concerns the analysis and strengthening of children’s emotional self-regulation as a key process in the sustainable and comprehensive educational development of students from 6 to 8 years of age. The objective of the present study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,123 Views
12 Pages

24 December 2023

General well-being is a positive evaluation of one’s mental health, which is an important topic in mental health. General well-being is fundamental to the positive development of young people. A thorough understanding of the factors that influe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,317 Views
18 Pages

29 August 2020

This study investigates the association of the rural–urban divide and the time individuals allocate to self-employment. The empirical analysis uses fixed effects modelling on data from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey over the period 2009&n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,977 Views
17 Pages

Studies commonly measure the effects of media narratives on the self immediately following exposure. We explored whether these effects on viewers’ self-esteem, self-efficacy and motivation are confined to the immediate post-exposure period and...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1,800 Views
53 Pages

14 June 2025

Condition Monitoring (CM) is a key component of Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing (SASO) systems. By analyzing sensor data, CM enables systems to react to dynamic conditions, supporting the core principles of Organic Computing (OC): robustness, adapt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,426 Views
10 Pages

Parietal Gamma Band Oscillation Induced by Self-Hand Recognition

  • Masaya Ueda,
  • Keita Ueno,
  • Takashi Inamoto,
  • China Shiroma,
  • Masahiro Hata,
  • Ryouhei Ishii and
  • Yasuo Naito

16 February 2022

Physiological studies have shown that self-body images receive unique recognition processing in a wide range of brain areas, from the frontal lobe to the parietal-occipital cortex. Event-related potential (ERP) studies have shown that the self-refere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,728 Views
8 Pages

15 September 2023

This study examined the significance of digital citizenship and gender in the relationship between social media usage time and self-esteem among adolescents. This cross-sectional study was a secondary analysis using national data on 506 Korean adoles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,333 Views
10 Pages

Influence of Body Dissatisfaction on the Self-Esteem of Brazilian Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study

  • Francisco Nataniel Macêdo Uchôa,
  • Natalia Macêdo Uchôa,
  • Thiago Medeiros da Costa Daniele,
  • Romário Pinheiro Lustosa,
  • Paulo Roberto de Castro Nogueira,
  • Victor Machado Reis,
  • Joaquim Huaina Cintra Andrade,
  • Naira Figueiredo Deana,
  • Ágata Marques Aranha and
  • Nilton Alves

Background: The present study investigated the influence of body dissatisfaction (BD) on the self-esteem of Brazilian adolescents. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out with 1011 students at public and private schools in the city of Fortal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,935 Views
11 Pages

The goal of the study was to understand the mechanisms of how social networking sites (SNS) usage is related to depression symptoms, as measured by the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CESD). Three studies were conducted to examin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,141 Views
10 Pages

Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and Their Association with Self-Regulation in Chilean Children

  • José Francisco López-Gil,
  • Xavier Oriol-Granado,
  • Mikel Izquierdo,
  • Robinson Ramírez-Vélez,
  • Omar Fernández-Vergara,
  • Jordi Olloquequi and
  • Antonio García-Hermoso

Background: Self-regulation comprises a series of important competencies, such as the ability to control inner states or responses toward thoughts, attention, emotions, or even performance. The relationship between self-regulation and different healt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,724 Views
14 Pages

The present study aimed to investigate the causal relationship between trait emotional intelligence and creative self-efficacy in gifted children and to explore the cross-temporal mediating role of self-concept between these two variables. A total of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,605 Views
18 Pages

21 May 2025

There is a close relationship between self-esteem and emotions. However, most studies have relied on self-report measures, which primarily capture retrospective and generalized emotional tendencies, rather than spontaneous, momentary emotional expres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,869 Views
13 Pages

Background: Computer and mobile games are widely used among undergraduate students worldwide, especially in China. Our objective was to predict the time spent playing computer and mobile games based on interpersonal relations and social cognitive the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,917 Views
13 Pages

14 September 2025

This study used latent transition analysis to explore the categories of self-concept clarity transformation and their influencing factors among adolescents. A total of 3010 adolescents (Mage = 17.56, SD = 2.61, ranging from 12 to 23 years, 41.23% mal...

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